Accident Report Detail
Accident: 135188.015 - Employee Is Bruised When Aerial Lift Rolls Over
Accident: 135188.015 -- Report ID: 0352450 -- Event Date: 01/30/2021 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1512477.015 | 01/30/2021 | J. E. Richards, Inc. | |||||
At 2:00 p.m. on January 30, 2021, Employee #1, employed by an electrical contrac tor, was engaged in rehabilitation work for a commercial building. He was attem pting to drive an aerial lift into the building using the building's ramp. The aerial lift became stuck on the ramp's ten percent incline, and Employee #1 aske d a coworker to use an RT Forklift to push him up the incline. During this proc ess, the forklift raised the aerial lift's rear off of the ramp's surface, and t he aerial lift tipped over. The rails of the aerial lift folded up and struck t he employee in the ribs. Employee #1 was pinned in the lift basket against a sea container. Employee #1 sustained contusions to the ribs but refused treatment when emergency medical services arrived. | |||||||
Keywords:
aerial lift, basket, caught in, construction, contusion, equipment operator, fall, fall protection, forklift, guardrail, loading ramp, pinned, rehabilitation, renovation, rib, roll-over, struck by
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Commercial building | Alteration or rehabilitation | ||||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Construction | |
1 | 1512477.015 | 53 | M | Non Hospitalized injury | FallDist: 5 FallHt:5 Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite FatCause: |